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Profession model maker

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Model makers create three-dimensional scale models or various designs or concepts and for various purposes, such as models of human skeletons or organs. They also mount the models on display stands so that they can be used for their final purpose such as inclusion in education activities.

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Personality Type

Artistic
/ Enterprising

Knowledge

Design principles

The elements used in design such as unity, scale, proportion, balance, symmetry, space, form, texture, colour, light, shade and congruence and their application into practice.

Skills

Read engineering drawings

Read the technical drawings of a product made by the engineer in order to suggest improvements, make models of the product or operate it.

Align and lay out components in order to put them together correctly according to blueprints and technical plans.

Follow a brief

Interpret and meet requirements and expectations, as discussed and agreed upon with the customers.

Design scale models

Design imitations of products such as vehicles or buildings which accurately represent the dimensions of the product in a smaller format.

Use CAD software

Use computer-aided design (CAD) systems to assist in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimisation of a design.

Create a product's virtual model

Create a mathematical or three-dimensional computer graphic model of the product by using a CAE system or a calculator.

Operate precision measuring equipment

Measure the size of a processed part when checking and marking it to check if it is up to standard by use of two and three dimensional precision measuring equipment such as a caliper, a micrometer, and a measuring gauge.

Fasten components

Fasten components together according to blueprints and technical plans in order to create subassemblies or finished products.